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Wiren: Serenade for Strings, Op. I I (Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg; London). An appealing piece dating from 1937 by one of Sweden's standout composers. Like a good many other Scandinavian efforts. Dag Wiren's work avoids blatant modernity, but gets a fresh, airy effect by blending forthright melodic warmth with spicy dashes of dissonance...
...wing Nationalists and a few obscure parties of the left-wing bloc. Bull-necked Marxist Iwa Kusumasumantri, jailed in 1946 for his part in the Communist Tan Malaka rebellion, was named Minister of Defense. The new Justice Minister has attended Communist peace rallies; the new Foreign Secretary signed the Stockholm peace appeal. Pro-Communists held the Ministries of Finance and Education...
...much of the past, has staged six retrospective exhibitions of her long dead masters since 1935. Having already shown off her greatest-Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto-Venice this summer is doing homage to a lesser genius: Lorenzo Lotto. The city has gathered 121 Lottos from such faraway places as Stockholm and New York, hung them in a 16-room suite of the Doges' Palace. Its high, cool chambers, with coffered ceilings and huge chimney pieces, make almost too grand a setting for Lotto...
John Scott, former Moscow correspondent and TIME Bureau Chief in Stockholm and Berlin, found students particularly interested in European politics, changes in the Kremlin and the future of Germany. As did the other speakers, he also ran into tough criticism of as well as praise for TIME'S reporting on these critical areas. Particular criticism came from those journalism students who upheld the "cult of suspended judgment" - trying to be objective without taking a stand on an issue. (Scott's answer: Merely reporting the facts is not enough. An understanding of the meaning behind the facts is necessary...
When that laconic message crossed his desk in 1932, Secretary of State Henry Stimson asked: Who is Willis? A look at the files revealed that Willis was Frances E. (for Elizabeth) Willis, 33, third secretary in the U.S. legation in Stockholm. In the absence of the minister and his top subordinates, Frances Willis had become the first woman ever to represent the U.S. abroad as a chief of mission, even an acting chief of mission...